{"id":196462,"date":"2008-04-24T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/24\/gripen-demo-rollout\/"},"modified":"2008-04-24T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T00:00:00","slug":"gripen-demo-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/24\/gripen-demo-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"Gripen Demo Rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, SAAB has rolled out its Gripen demo, with more thrust<sup>*<\/sup>, more fuel, and more carrying capacity, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A5321db4e-30b7-4acd-a0fc-86e6b41d5789\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/04\/23\/223212\/pictures-saab-reveals-gripen-demo-aircraft.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There should be a meaningful (i.e. carrying a meaningful air-to-air load) supercruise, in addition to the greater payload and range in the strike configuration.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally there are some developments in parallel in avionics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A08b69f7e-cc4c-478b-a302-0b367d0b98b7\">most notably an AESA radar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can see how the landing gear has been moved outboard to the win root to allow for more internal fuel and a second pylon on the fuselage.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img170.imageshack.us\/img170\/2892\/getassetjn1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also here:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img208.imageshack.us\/img208\/1191\/ac025897b8454352be3def1qj9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to being the best value of the current generation of fighters, I also think that it&#8217;s just plain cool:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img208.imageshack.us\/img208\/9531\/76534354539c44df9b7ae51pp1.jpg\" \/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img208.imageshack.us\/img208\/2084\/8803097796af4011a4e9023uy6.jpg\" \/><br \/><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Cheaper engine too.  The RM-12, a GE F404 derivative is actually more expensive than the roughly 25% more powerful GE F414.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, SAAB has rolled out its Gripen demo, with more thrust*, more fuel, and more carrying capacity, see here and here. There should be a meaningful (i.e. carrying a meaningful air-to-air load) supercruise, in addition to the greater payload and range in the strike configuration. Additionally there are some developments in parallel in avionics, most &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1211,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}